A bendy bus fit for Boris?

Mercedes unveils a new upmarket offering

I recall the late Matthew Bradley of Go Ahead Group returning from a trip to the giant Mercedes-Benz bus factory in Mannheim in frustration. Bradley was always looking at new ways of doing things and he wanted the Germans to help him to create the kind of vehicle that motorists might aspire, rather than loath, to use.

When Bradley asked whether certain aspects of the interior could be changed the response was blank looks. The last thing Mercedes wanted was to complicate the production line by...

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